shaky

Word Origin & History

1840, of handwriting; 1841 of persons, horses, and credit; 1850 of structures; from shake (v.) + -y (2). General sense of "uncertain, of questionable integrity" is from 1834. Earliest of trees or logs, "split, having fissures" (1808). Related: Shakily; shakiness.

Example Sentences for shaky

Now the man had an old grandfather at home, who was weak and shaky.

Shaky was on his feet in an instant, and his anger was blazing in his fierce eyes.

He weighed the stories he had heard from Shaky, and picked them threadbare.

She found it very hard to speak and, when she did do so, her voice was shaky.

It is so shaky nowadays that I can scarcely decipher some of it.

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